14. VIII. 1918

Dear Comrade Berzin! I am taking the opportunity to dash off a couple of words of greeting. I thank you most sincerely for the publications.

Your Lenin

P. S. Send me copies of interesting newspapers (with reviews of the White Guards) and new pamphlets, all kinds of them: English, French, German and Italian. Spare no expense.

Greetings to Gorter and Guilbeaux. It would be good if people well-read in world socialist literature sent us good quotations suitable for inscriptions on the streets (for the information of Gorter and others, etc.).

Did P. and N. N. help? Do not spare expense!!

P. P. S. Give the enclosed to Platten.159

Sent to Bern

First published 21 January

1925 in the newspaper Pravda no. 17

Printed according to the newspaper text